"He thinks he's hallucinating" m

[alice wellintown]

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> Dr Thwackum or somebody in the Lit curriculum somewhere talked about
> Hawthorne's "No, writ in thunder" or something like that.  (He also
> mentioned some other American luminary's "yes" - or did he? I can't
> remember if he did, or if he did, that writer's name, right now)

I don't know his name, but he was a doctor of something or other and
that's worth consideration.  While the doctor who cuts in when the
music's over, when the shooting is done, the takes are all taken and
spliced, and the magician or priest, whose authority, like Prospero's
in the final act, or Pip's on that staged Forecastle, back when
theatre was still all theatre and when Fielding's actors were afield
in a prose narrative, and when a that third party might be an audience
unbeknownst to the hero, and when the aside, a term we asided, though
no one decided or voted, might be not so cut up and directed by a
doctor and director, and when a hector in the front row would know
that the actor is an actor who may be a doctor but is playing a player
at a whole nother layer, well, then, the wire or recorder exposed not
to the hero but live to the hector and to each and every live
spectator, would not need a subject pronoun and would not have
conventional marks. A back to the hero, a twisted face and a front to
the audience, a wire, an Iago's machinations exposed in a conventional
and considerate manner.